Amherst College- Classes Will Move to Remote Learning to Mitigate COVID-19

THanson
Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:45:33 +0000

They really need some grownup leadership.
These old line endowment rich colleges essentially run themselves. Because of their branding they are essentially competition-free monopolies.
So you can have figurehead people running them, living in a fantasy world, mainly just traveling the country raising funds and shaking hands, and it’s ok.
Until something like this happens. Then they’re exposed.

My son has had a wonderful experience at Amherst for 3.75 years. There’s no question it’s an amazing, really almost magical place to learn.
He’s grown personally and academically beyond expectation. His critical thinking and writing are light years ahead of where he was when he started.
He had amazing internships all 3 summers, and is going to a dream job right after graduation.
He’s made incredible life long friends. (In fact he’s liked everyone he’s met there, it’s a wonderful community).
And the administration has kept things going smoothly and have generally at least tried to appear even handed and non political.
So we have nothing but great things to say about Amherst.

But this was beyond them and handled very poorly.